There is an outstanding issue with the Standard Sky+HD remote accessible when setting up a Slingbox.

It does not allow you to type letters (eg, press no.3 key 3 times to get the letter F).

This never mattered before as Sky setup does not require any user info to be input in this way but now with all the on demand and catchup content available on Sky, they have added a search facility which of course requires the ability to access the letters on the number keys. I wanted to watch the Rocky series of movies the other day and had to scroll through over 100 pages to find them. Just need to use the Search facility and type 'rocky'.

With the standard remote for example, if you want to type the letter 'F', you should click the '3' key, three times. But instead of an 'F' you get 'DDD'.

I am sure I saw a forum post either on here or another forum where a fixed remote had been posted (more than likely an 'alanrichey' piece of genius), but for the life of me, cannot find that post anywhere now.

Does anyone have this revised Slingbox .bin file to share??_________________Angel Rose

I think what I did was to change the repeat rate to zero so that only a single IR burst is sent instead of the default 3 bursts. This should mean that rapid presses of the digits should give you the letters. Try

Right, for anyone else looking for this solution I have found the original post, with instructions on how to get the correct Skin.

Here it is:

Typing characters on the SKY+ HD soft remote to search in Guide
reply from alanrichey42 in SlingPlayer for the Web Enhancement Requests - View the full discussion
The cause of this is that the standard virtual remote on Slingboxes sends 3 copies of the IR Stream with quite a delay, to make sure the receiver gets it. I have built a Custom Remote for the Sky HD box that resets this so only one copy of the IR Signal is sent, and that makes entering letters practical.

I'm new to the forum. I'm suffering from this problem and I'm wondering if a solution has been found.

Thanks in advance

Which problem exactly are you suffering from, please provide more specifics._________________Rob
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